WO1998052063A1 - Circuit de conditionnement destine a un capteur de couple - Google Patents

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WO1998052063A1
WO1998052063A1 PCT/GB1998/001357 GB9801357W WO9852063A1 WO 1998052063 A1 WO1998052063 A1 WO 1998052063A1 GB 9801357 W GB9801357 W GB 9801357W WO 9852063 A1 WO9852063 A1 WO 9852063A1
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Lutz Axel May
Adrian Paul Brokaw
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Priority to JP54892098A priority patent/JP2002505739A/ja
Priority to DE69804298T priority patent/DE69804298T2/de
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01L—MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE
    • G01L3/00—Measuring torque, work, mechanical power, or mechanical efficiency, in general
    • G01L3/02—Rotary-transmission dynamometers
    • G01L3/04—Rotary-transmission dynamometers wherein the torque-transmitting element comprises a torsionally-flexible shaft
    • G01L3/10—Rotary-transmission dynamometers wherein the torque-transmitting element comprises a torsionally-flexible shaft involving electric or magnetic means for indicating
    • G01L3/101—Rotary-transmission dynamometers wherein the torque-transmitting element comprises a torsionally-flexible shaft involving electric or magnetic means for indicating involving magnetic or electromagnetic means
    • G01L3/102—Rotary-transmission dynamometers wherein the torque-transmitting element comprises a torsionally-flexible shaft involving electric or magnetic means for indicating involving magnetic or electromagnetic means involving magnetostrictive means
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01L—MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE
    • G01L3/00—Measuring torque, work, mechanical power, or mechanical efficiency, in general
    • G01L3/02—Rotary-transmission dynamometers
    • G01L3/04—Rotary-transmission dynamometers wherein the torque-transmitting element comprises a torsionally-flexible shaft
    • G01L3/10—Rotary-transmission dynamometers wherein the torque-transmitting element comprises a torsionally-flexible shaft involving electric or magnetic means for indicating
    • G01L3/101—Rotary-transmission dynamometers wherein the torque-transmitting element comprises a torsionally-flexible shaft involving electric or magnetic means for indicating involving magnetic or electromagnetic means
    • G01L3/105—Rotary-transmission dynamometers wherein the torque-transmitting element comprises a torsionally-flexible shaft involving electric or magnetic means for indicating involving magnetic or electromagnetic means involving inductive means

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  • This invention relates to a circuit for use with a sensor responsive to magnetic fields, and has particular, though not exclusive application, to what is known as a torque sensor.
  • Magnetoelastic torque sensors are known in the art. They are used to sense a magnetic field emanated by a magnetoelastic element mounted to a shaft due to the torque resulting from rotation or attempted rotation of a shaft. The rotation of any shaft from one end to drive a load at the other end generates torque in the shaft due to differential angular displacement (which may be very small) between the point at which drive is applied and the point at which the load is driven. If magnetoelastic means generating a magnetic field is associated with a shaft the field becomes distorted by the torque in the shaft and such distortion can be sensed as a measure of torque. BACKGROUND TO THE INVENTION
  • Magnetoelastic torque sensing in general can thus be divided into two parts : one is the magnetoelastic element and the arrangement for mounting one or more sensors with respect to the shaft - the torque transducer; and the other is the sensing circuit connected to the one or more sensors and processing the resultant signals - the signal conditioner.
  • the sensor of interest here is one or more coils .
  • the present invention is concerned with the sensing circuit. The actual arrangement of the one or more magnetic coils is not the concern of this invention.
  • a voltage indicative of the unbalancing magnetic field is measured by an amplifier and used to create a feedback current into the inductor derived from the output voltage to null the imbalance.
  • This nulling current is applied through a resistor to act as a current source but the value of the current is dependent also on the inductor resistance which is uncertain and temperature sensitive.
  • U.S. patent 5,039,945 addresses this problem and proposes a solution having a great deal of added complication.
  • the present invention is based on the recognition that the unbalance current in the sensor coil due to the external field can be used directly as a measurement parameter, thereby avoiding the need to generate the nulling or compensating current of the prior art.
  • Fig. 1 is a simplified circuit diagram illustrating the principle of the invention in a signal conditioner for a dual rail power supply
  • Fig. 2 is a simplified circuit diagram illustrating a modification of the Fig. 1 circuit in a signal conditioner for a single rail power supply; THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
  • the saturable inductor for sensing the magnetic field is denoted LI.
  • the torque transducer may use a number of coils. Arrangements having two or four coils have been proposed. As already explained the transducer construction itself is not part of this invention. If multiple coils are used, then they may be series connected so that the coil LI represents the series of coils in such a case. Series connection of multiple coils is not essential.
  • the circuit of Fig. 1 comprises two linked portions, a driver circuit 10 for coil LI in which the coil is an integral part of a switched oscillator, and a current measuring circuit 20 responsive to the unbalance current in the coil due to the applied external magnetic field sensed by the transducer .
  • the driver and current measuring circuits are connected between positive and negative supply rails V+ and V- assumed of equal magnitude with respect to ground GND.
  • a comparator 12 acts as a switched amplifier whose output (high or low) at node Nl controls two switches SI and S2 connected in series between rails V+ and V- with an intermediate node N2 between them.
  • SI high SI is closed (ON)
  • S2 is open (OFF)
  • SI is OFF.
  • the switches SI, S2 control the alternate application of the voltages V+ and V- to one terminal of coil LI connected at node N2.
  • the other end of coil LI indicated as node N4 , is connected through a current sensing resistor R2 to a virtual ground point N5; that is N5 is held at GND potential in the measuring circuit 20.
  • Resistor R2 acts both as an element of the oscillator driver 10 and of the measuring circuit 20, as will be further described below.
  • the inductor LI is alternately connected in each oscillator cycle between V+ and GND in one half cycle and between V- and GND in the other to have applied to it a square wave voltage as the comparator circuit switches state.
  • the action of the driver circuit is dependent on the currents developed in response to the opposite polarities of the square wave drive voltage as follows.
  • Node N2 is connected to ground through series resistors R3 and R4 selected to set switching levels for the comparator as will be described.
  • the node N3 between them is connected to the non- inverting input (+) of comparator 12 to provide a bias voltage at this input .
  • the node N4 is connected to the inverting input (-) of comparator 12. Circuit values including R2 , R3 and R4 are selected so that with the comparator output high and with SI ON, as long as the current in coil LI is low, the voltage at N4 will be lower than that at N3.
  • the positive voltage at N2 applied across coil LI initially causes the inductor current to ramp up, that is to increase approximately linearly.
  • R2 is selected to keep the voltage at node N4 below that at node N3 (which is not current dependent) for the duration of the current ramp in LI.
  • the bias (whose value is set by R3 , R4) at node N3 is in the same polarity sense as the voltage applied to the inductor, thereby applying a positive feed back to the non-inverting input of the comparator.
  • LI begins to saturate the current through it rises non-linearly and abruptly.
  • the cycle of operation will repeat, and in the absence of a magnetic field at the coil, the circuit will operate as a symmetrical free running oscillator.
  • the frequency of operation will be determined by the supply voltages (assumed to be equal in magnitude) and the saturation characteristics of the coil. Typical frequencies are in the range of a few tens to a few hundreds of kHz. While the signal across the coil is symmetrical in voltage and time, the current through the coil will average to zero, when integrated over a complete cycle.
  • the field will aid the build-up of flux in the core for one polarity of the driving voltage, and oppose it for the other polarity. This will upset the symmetry of the continuing oscillation. As a result, a net current will flow in the coil. This current will be in opposition to the magnetic field. When the current produces a field which exactly cancels the external field, the balance of the oscillation will be restored, but the current will persist to maintain equilibrium.
  • the current will be in direct proportion to the applied external field, so that measurement of this non-zero average current will be an accurate representation of the field.
  • the measuring circuit acts as a current-to-voltage converter. It converts the average current in the coil LI to a proportionate voltage.
  • This converter employs a conventional integrator using an operational amplifier 22.
  • the integrator operation is determined by the input sensing resistor R2 and the feedback components.
  • the latter are an integrating filter capacitor in parallel with scaling resistor Rl .
  • the non-inverting input of the op-amp.22 is connected to ground GND so that the feedback action serves to maintain the inverting input - node N5 - at a virtual ground potential.
  • the op-amp itself nonetheless presents a high impedance input.
  • the current in coil LI that flows through R2 to the virtual ground node N5 also flows in the parallel combination Cl and Rl .
  • the filtering or integrating action of Cl over a cycle of oscillation of the coil driver circuit is to absorb the large current transients (positive and negative) which are generated in LI. If the transducer coil is operating in balanced mode (no external field) , these transients cancel and the integrator output remains at ground potential. If, however, there is an unbalance due to the presence of a magnetic field, then as explained above there will be a net average current over the oscillation cycle. That average current must flow through Rl so that the output of the integrator will produce a voltage Vo proportional to the average current and thus to the magnetic field which gave rise to it.
  • the polarity of the output voltage Vo will reflect the polarity of the average current and thus of the external magnetic field (the integrator has an inherent inverting function) .
  • the circuit is essentially current operated and that the desired operation can be achieved with various power supply arrangements.
  • a circuit specifically for a single supply polarity voltage is given below but the principles of current operation can be employed in various power supply arrangements. This will be further discussed.
  • the switches SI, S2 are operated so as to apply an alternating drive signal to the coil LI.
  • the switching of the drive is initiated by the comparator 12 in response to voltage applied to its inputs. Since the integrator amplifier 22 operates to make node N5 a virtual ground, the voltage at N4 will be given by the product of the resistance R2 and the instantaneous coil current. This voltage then, is a direct measure of the coil current.
  • the voltage at N4 is compared to the voltage at N3. After the drive switches polarity, the coil current builds up until it reaches the level which makes the voltage on N4 equal to the voltage on N3 , whereupon, the switches are operated by the comparator to reverse the drive for the next half cycle. In order to detect a magnetic field acting on the core of the coil, the coil should be driven until the core reaches the non-linear portion of its B-H characteristic.
  • the current level in the coil will be an indicator of the degree of saturation of the core.
  • R2 is selected to produce a desired voltage when the core has been driven to the proper region. This voltage is used to switch the drive.
  • the current in the coil should be zero. If it is not, the average current will have to be carried away by the amplifier, to maintain N5 at zero. This current will flow through Rl, and indicate that there is some signal present, when in fact there is none .
  • the comparator triggers and operates the switches when the coil current reaches the same magnitude in each polarity. This current level will indicate that the core has reached the same percentage of saturation in each direction, and the average current will be zero.
  • the level at which the comparator triggers is set by the voltage on N3 , to which the voltage of N4 is compared.
  • the voltage applied to N3 must be of equal magnitude, in both directions .
  • This voltage is obtained by tapping off the drive, which is symmetrical, in the illustrated embodiment.
  • the circuit described above uses positive and negative power supplies, V+ and V- , with respect to ground.
  • the power supply rails V+ and V- are symmetrical with respect to ground. It is often the case, for example in automotive systems, that only a single supply polarity voltage supply is available. In order to drive the sensing coil with opposite polarity voltages, an effective operating ground potential has to be established.
  • Fig. 2 shows a circuit modified for this purpose. The operation of the circuit is essentially as the circuit of Fig. 1 so that only the modifications will be described.
  • Fig. 2 the potential of the virtual ground at node N5 is established at the potential of node N7 set by the series resistors R7 , R8 connected as a divider across the supply rails.
  • the switching of the oscillator/driver 10 has therefore to be modified to swing about this virtual ground potential .
  • R4 R6 connected between the supply rails.
  • the switched voltage at node N2 is applied to node N3 through R3.
  • R3 still drives N3 , but now with respect to a voltage determined by the ratio of R6 to R4. Generally (but not necessarily) these two resistors will be made equal, so the N3 signal will be driven between two voltage levels equally above and below half the power supply voltage.
  • the divider ratio setting these levels will be given by the resistance of R3 and the parallel resistance of R6 and R4.
  • the integrator amplifier produces the "virtual ground” as the voltage at N7. If the ratio of R7 to R8 is the same as the ratio of R6 to R4 , the integrating amplifier average output voltage should be the same as the voltage at N7 when no magnetic field is present at the sensor. If these ratios differ, the voltage difference between the N7 voltage and the average N3 voltage will be developed across Rl on the average with zero signal . A magnetic field applied to the sensor coil LI will cause a change in the output exactly as described above, but with reference to the no-field voltage just described.
  • the no-field offset voltage resulting from the R6/R4 ratio differing from the R7/R8 ratio can be used to shift the indication point if desired. More commonly, though, both these ratios will be set to l/l so that the no-field output will be at half the supply line voltage.
  • An alternative arrangement which can be used to ensure that the reference voltage for the oscillator circuit is the same as the reference for the integrator, is to use a unity gain buffer from N7.
  • This buffer controls a resistor like R4 in the circuit of Fig. 1.
  • R6 is not used, and the lower end of R4 is held at the N7 potential by the buffer.
  • the voltage at N3 will now swing around the N7 potential; symmetrically if N7 is at half the supply voltage.
  • This arrangement may be beneficial in an IC implementation, since it avoids the need to match the two resistor ratios.
  • a second feature of the single supply circuit illustration (which is also applicable to the circuit of Fig. 1) employs a second filter capacitor, C2 , in the path of N4 to the virtual ground at N5.
  • the current sensing resistor is now constituted by two series resistors R2 , R5 from whose junction N6 the capacitor C2 is connected to V- to provide a filter circuit.
  • This extra capacitor will reduce the ripple current from the oscillator which must be supplied by way of Cl .
  • R7 and R8 could be adjusted to a ratio other than 1:1, and R4 ,
  • R5 and R3 could be adjusted so that the voltage at N3 would make symmetrical excursions around the voltage at N7 as the drive is switched to V+ and V- . This would satisfy the requirement to make the drive switching levels symmetrical in peak current. As a result, the zero field condition of the core would result in the output being at the N7 voltage.
  • Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 have shown the switches SI and S2 diagrammatically in order to assist in understanding the principles of operation. It will be understood that in practice the switches will be implemented by means of semiconductor devices. For example, a complementary pair of NPN and PNP transistors in series between the V+ and V- rails. SI comprises the PNP transistor having its emitter connected to the V+ rail . S2 comprises the NPN transistor having its emitter connected to the V- rail. The collectors are connected together to provide node N2. Appropriate base drive circuitry for the pair of transistors is well within the compass of those in the art.
  • the circuit arrangements described above are shown in terms of discrete components. Much of the circuitry could be realised in an integrated circuit. It is also to be noted that the integrator output voltage Vout may swing positive or negative dependent on the direction of the sensed magnetic filed.
  • the feedback capacitor Cl which may typically be 47 ⁇ f, should be chosen to be capable of being biased to either polarity or may be constituted by a pair of oppositely poled electrolytic capacitors.
  • the circuit operates with positive and negative voltage rails of equal magnitude.
  • the switching of the comparator 12 is a function of the current in inductor LI. It will be recalled that when drive voltage of either polarity is applied to the inductor LI, the current in it rises linearly until the inductor saturates, whereupon the current rises sharply to cause the comparator to switch and initiate the next half- cycle of operation. Consequently the switching of the comparator on the current levels may be affected by asymmetries in the circuit elements and/or applied voltages.
  • circuits illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 seek to assist in achieving such balance and equality of current- switching by effectively establishing symmetry of the positive and negative voltage rails together with symmetry of the switching circuitry through SI and S2 for applying voltage to the inductor.
  • this kind of symmetry is not essential . Balancing of the circuit as discussed above can still be met.
  • signal conditioner circuits in accord with the invention has been in the context of a circuit for use in torque sensing. However, it will be appreciated that the described circuit is more generally applicable to measuring magnetic fields including, for example, fields due to the flow of electric current.

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L'invention se rapporte à un circuit permettant de détecter un champ magnétique. Ce circuit comporte au moins une bobine saturable (L1). Ce circuit comporte des commutateurs (S1, S2) commandés par un comparateur (12) et ce, dans le but d'exciter la bobine (L1) à saturation par alternance des polarités du courant. En l'absence d'un champ magnétique externe, les courants sont équilibrés. L'application d'un champ magnétique externe entraîne le déséquilibre dans la bobine (L1) en arrivant à saturation. Un courant de déséquilibre est appliqué, par l'intermédiaire d'une résistance de détection (R2), à un intégrateur (20) aux fins de développer une tension de sortie (Vo) proportionnelle au champ magnétique appliqué. Les commutateurs (S1, S2) sont actionnés par des commutateurs à transistor. L'invention concerne également des circuits d'alimentation à rail d'alimentation (Fig. 1) ou simple (Fig. 2). Ce circuit trouve une application particulière dans les transducteurs de couple dans lesquels des éléments magnétoélastiques sont utilisés.
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AT98920680T ATE214807T1 (de) 1997-05-13 1998-05-13 Signalformgeber für drehmomentsensor
US09/423,888 US6346812B1 (en) 1997-05-13 1998-05-13 Conditioner circuit for magnetic field sensor
EP98920680A EP0981760B1 (fr) 1997-05-13 1998-05-13 Circuit de conditionnement destine a un capteur de couple
AU73465/98A AU7346598A (en) 1997-05-13 1998-05-13 Conditioner circuit for torque sensor
JP54892098A JP2002505739A (ja) 1997-05-13 1998-05-13 トルクセンサー用調整回路
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